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The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Commensurate
Leading
Usually
Worry
Getting
Happiness

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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand
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She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.
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You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.
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When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.
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She couldn’t hide from everyone for the rest of her life… Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good.
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Daniel? Yes. Did you ever think we were meant not to be together? No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.
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The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.
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Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.
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Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.
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He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.
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As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
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Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.
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she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.
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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.
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